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  • There Is No Vetting

    There Is No Vetting0

    Back in August, as the Biden administration prepared to dump 82,000-plus Afghan refugees onto U.S. soil, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security assured Americans that it was “working around the clock to conduct the security screening and vetting of vulnerable Afghans before they are permitted entry into the United States” and taking “multiple steps to

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  • There Is No Such Thing as Equality, and Thank Goodness

    There Is No Such Thing as Equality, and Thank Goodness0

    • November 3, 2017

    Typically, Hayek’s chapter titles leave nothing to the imagination. But as I encountered the “Who, Whom” title of chapter eight in The Road to Serfdom, I had to do a doubletake. Having the modern luxury of Google at my fingertips, I soon learned that Hayek’s title was actually a Bolshevist slogan made popular by Lenin

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  • There is No Neutral Parenting

    There is No Neutral Parenting0

    • September 14, 2016

    Occasionally, you’ll see and hear comments about parents indoctrinating their children or imposing their “values” upon them. The reality is that there is no neutral parenting. Children are brought into a culture and home that they do not choose. They are taught a language that is not of their choice. They are at the mercy

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  • There is No Monopoly on Post-Truth

    There is No Monopoly on Post-Truth0

    Jennifer Rubin’s Washington Post op-ed calling for Americans to put an end to our new post-truth society might have been laudable. Unfortunately for her, she fails to realize that her piece is a fine example of politically-biased, mainstream media spin-doctoring. Furthermore, Rubin’s piece demonstrates that when either side pretends that one party or one ideology

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  • There Is Greatness in the Past—Despite What Critical Theorists Try to Tell Us

    There Is Greatness in the Past—Despite What Critical Theorists Try to Tell Us2

    I grew up as one of eight pugnacious boys in a family of 12 children. In a family this large, disagreements naturally arise, and Dad set up a boxing ring in the basement to empower us to settle our differences. The older brother got a lefthand boxing glove, the younger got two gloves—that was the

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  • There Is a More Beautiful Melody Than Fear

    There Is a More Beautiful Melody Than Fear0

    “Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” is a working paper by Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal, and Molly Cook recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The authors found that media coverage of COVID-19 has been much more negative in the U.S. than in international media. They found, “Ninety one percent of

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